Dave Van

It was more difficult to get it to run well than any Tamiya R/C kit I every built....but it's working fine now....and yes beats finger spinning bits!

Watch that!!!! As the 2nd owner of a 74 Matador coupe I think they look good....even my stock 34K miles one!! Where did you see thus one????? I have seen it in show coverage for years. My 74 coupe will be heading to the shop soon for some work....though not that radical!!

GREAT start!

Tamiya semi-gloss black or Dupli-color semi gloss

Voting often does not work. RC2 tried it and the lunatic fringe skewed the results. Write R2, Revell and Moebius and let them know what you want. I have a copy of a letter I sent to Monogram in 1985. Of my list of ten all new kits....6 were made before the Revell buy out. Let them know!

26 Morgan Plus 8's heading North on US219 outside Lewisburg WV. I was driving South so no pics.......and I poked around the net to see it there was a meet in the area....thinking Snowshoe ski resort as car and bike clubs often meet there. No news of a meet anywhere....so not sure what it was. I'd like to see them stopped....one had the WILD air dam and wheel flares. Cool cars....looked like fun too!

That's not bad....is the $55 rack required??? Forgive me I don't do Facespace and find it difficult to use.

I didn't see prices.....except $55 for a empty rack!!!!!! So how much does it end up costing???

Why??? Pretty easy to guess....... Willys tooling is complete and ready to run without a cash investment. They have a 3 Stooges license in hand...... Original Ala Cart is incomplete and kinda a mess. I bought one Willys and I like it.

I like your spin!

Agreed.....and silver is a good color blocker for colored plastics.....

Ditto on white primer....Tamiya or Dupli-color. Never have good luck with white or yellow over gray.

Life-Like by Walthers Inc of Milwaukee WI. They have a number of entry level detail HO scale vehicles. The ambulance is not Walthers IIRC ...looks like EKO maybe.

Neither kit is great. I have built both....lik the Revell kit better.

The Monogram 1/43 line almost did continue on after the two kits shown.......but not at Monogram!! Soon after Monogram killed the 1/43 line a key person at Monogram formed a group of folks to start a model company aimed at producing 1/43 scale plastic model kits. I was asked to help out. I modified and built 3 Starter brand 1/43 kits.....these were to be used to show what we intended to produce and to be used as display models at trade shows. I don't have the exact reasons the project/company stalled.....but the US market wasn't ready for mass produced platic 1/43 kits. This venture did turn into another model related entity but that's another story.......

RIP Marty.......always loved your TV shows.......

If you are referring to the kit itself..... No insider info on this exact kit.....but I know often in licensing you get a blanket license. R2 had a license for the 3 Stooges figure kits. They then did the 40 Panel.....sold enough to warrant a Willys kit. Remember the tooling is long paid for. If they can get non model car guys to buy a model because it's 3 Stooges.....a win-win for us and them. I bought ONE.....may never build it.....I thought it was cool idea....and a free whoopie cushion??? I'm in! Called getting the most for your license fees.

I vote MPC with a door cut open. IIRC the IMC kit had a nose that was a bit different than shown.....but unless I go pull both kits can't say 100%.

Nice clean build!!! Is that the Revell Monogram 1/24 kit??? I just bought one to build my 66 2+2. I am sending it to a restoration shop Tue and I am building a model like I want the car so the guys at the shop know what I want the end result to be. Even though I own a 66 Mustang....never built the kit.....any issues???? Again nice work!

RETRO box was not changed.....happy molded white too....... Got two on order but yet to get them.

I have a few of those kits put back.....you gave it a steam punk look!!

There are also some very nice photo etch toggles...... They are a SS ring and a paddle handle that you attach to the center of the ring.

IIRC there are 4 kits.....two different versions of two different kits. One a 6 wheeler the other a 4. They say 1/24 but in mock up seem perfect to go with 1/20 kits.

Love it!!!!! I like car and sci-fi models....so this is perfect!!! Have you seen the 'future' F1 kits from Japan???

A very cool build....perfect stance...... one suggestion....... the decal on the door looks like it has some silvering under it. It may just be the photo....but if it does have some apply a drop of Walthers Solvaset to the decal and use a new sharp pin to stick just the decal film...not the image...and the Solvaset will eliminate the silvering.....